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MAN-POWER FOR

DEFENCE

British Need

MINISTER ON EUROPEAN

OUTLOOK

Manchester. April 20.

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Lord Derby presided to-night at a public meeting at the Free Trade Hall attended by some 2.000 persons, to hear Mi. Duff Cooper. Secretary of State for War, as principal speaker in appeal, organized by the East Lancashire Territorial Association for more recruits for the Territorial Army.

Mr. Duff Cooper said that poli tlcs--by which he did not mean party politics-were inseparable froth the question of defence, and with all solemnity and in all sor- row he had to tell them tha: the situation In Europe to-day was graver than it was before the War In 1914. More dangerous doctrines were beng prenched, and fewer Influences were abroud which might promote the cause of peace and sanity.

The stakes were higher to-day "han in-1914. There was more to lose. Then the fate of empires was in the balance, and some fed and some survived, but to-day another war in Europe meant nothing less than the break up of the whole of civilization. The only direction in which the world had made any real progress since the end of the last war was In the manufacture of instruments of destruction, and so it was that in our time we might witness the suicide of civilization. It was no good pretending that this country could keep out of it, or that any great nation could keep out if a great war came, for the world was growing smaller, and in our own case we were more a part of the Continent of Europe than ever we were before, and our chances of escaping out of any great con- flagration were far less than ever they had been before,

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GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES Mr. Duff Cooper continued:- I is a solemn fact that at the present moment this country really not in position to take part in a great war. We have allowed our defences to fall so low, yet our responsibilities are so great There is no country in the world that has such interests and responsibilites, as we have every cont.nent. I do not mean material interests, but the lives

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very large department of National Defence, and a vast responsibility. A PACIFIST HERESY" APPEAL

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936.

ROBBERY RECALLED

Alleged Robbers In Court

AROUND THE THEY CAN RIDE

COURTS

(Continued from Page 5)

BANISHEES

Ip Wing-xi alla, Harry Ip, a re turned banishes with a criminat record of 12 previous convictions was sentenced to one year by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Cour yesterday. Defendant had banished for 10 years. on March 15, been

1934.

Naval Officers At

Hunting

1:

Times writes:

London, April 20. The Naval Correspondent of "The

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The age-old-trick of pretending to rent a floor and thus gaining the confidence of the householder in order to obtain admittance into a

The old gibe that naval officers flat, was described at the Kowloon

cannot ride has lost all point in Magistracy yesterday when Crown

holding of the Home Fleet race at recent years and last week the proceedings against two men, one

the Cattistock Point-to-Point meet- stated to be a refuse coolie, and a Chan Yik-chelng, 1 returned

ing, only a few days after the first woman aged 43 years, were 'com-banishee, was sentenced menced before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac months when he appeared before.ng at Knowlton, Kent, may be said to 12 Royal Marine Point-to-Point meet- fadyen. The case is one for com- Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central to have killed it entirely. initial, and was adjourned till this Court yesterday. He was banished" afternoon, after complainant, s 02 August 8. last year. married woman of No. 271 Laichi- Inspector Sabey prosecuted. kok Road, had occupied the whiness stand for most of the proceedings.

The accused were: Yuen Ming Sang, allas Mak Leung (23). Fung Kai, allas Fung Tai (41) unemploy- ed and Ho Kwal (43) widow of No. 138 Chung Chol Street, ground floor. The charge against all three was that they with another not in custody on March 21 did rob Chan Lau Heung, married woman of jewellery and money to the total value of $820 of this sum $500 was in cash.

Detective Inspector A. H. Elston, prosecuted assisted by Detective Sergeant C. H. Goodwin,

·

Lieut. P. S. Francis, R.N., who Sub-won the Home Fleet race, is a sub-

ESCAPED CONVICT CAUGHT

Lalchikok Gaol appeared before An escaped prisoner from the Mr. S F. Balfour yesterday at the Central Court, The defendant had escaped from the Gaol on August 14. last year and he was sentenced tr. a term of 12 months.

Me. Murphy, A.S.P., appeared for the prosecution and asked His Wor- ship to remand the prisoner for one week to

the Kowloon Court. The Superintendant of Prisons was

not sure whether the case was one for committal or not.

Defendant was remanded for one week."

murine officer recently serving in H.33 at Portsmouth. Sub-Lleuts. J. A. Holdsworth and W. H. Crawford, who were placed second and third, are undergoing their courses for the rank of lieutenant. Lieut.-Col.

in the R.M. Point-to-Point and also R. G. Sturges, who had the dis- tinction of entering the first horse riding the second, was promoted on April 1 after nearly seven years as

before entering the Marines, serving as a cadet at Osborne and Dart- major. He was a nava! officer

mouth in 1904-03 and as a mid- shipman in 1909-12, when he was! appointed probationary Heutenant.

R.M.

The Royal Naval Hunt Club, of which the late Lord Beatty, was president, has floutshed since 1910, and among the winners of its light- weight point-to-point race is King Edward, in 1928.

TO CHURCH LEADERS Speaking on the Territorial Army's responsibility for defence against hosle aircraft. Mr Dutt Cooper said he would have thought It impossible for anybody, however extreme hs pacifist views might be to think it was wrong to turn a gun from the land against an aerop ane that WAS dropping bombs on the women and children. but we were living, in strange Ames when the doctrine that it was wrong to use force to defend women and children against the

INVITED TO ENTER attacks of an enemy from the air Relating the facts of the robbery. Was being advocated even by Inspector Elston said that at about

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION clergymen in the Church of Eng- land.

11 am on the day in question, It was indeed

Charged with being in unlawful а new doctrine in this country

following three previous visits when possession of a razor, Wong Mu, that it two men visited Chan's premises to 42, unemployed, was bound over Was wrong to be a soidler, to fight enquire about a vacant dat. a in $50 by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the for the things In which WC believed.

woman (third defendant) called Central Magistracy yesterday. De- This new doctrine was insidiously spreading.

upon her and stated that she had tective Sergeant Mann said defen- and the come to pay a deposit for the first dant time had come, he thought, when ficor, which was unoccupied at the searched before boarding the ss. was arrested as he Was we must know where we stood. The theory that it was contrary

time. The visitor appeared to be Kwongsai at 9 p.m. on May 5. much distressed to the Christan religion to figh: three flights of steps and was in-coolle and that a European had left from climbing stated then that he was a ricksha for anything was пот which he could find any authority tering the flat and on the threshold Mann said that as a puller of a vited to enter, Just prior to en- the razor in his vehicle. Sergeant the Scriptures, and it was of the door, the woman intimated directly contrary to the whole that she had to call for her two duty to report his find to the play, tea. planter, of Batavia.

public vehicle it was defendant's ding yesterday of

Many people attended the wea- history of the Church. Yet people sans to pay

Mr. Jap Tian- In the Church of England were shouted down the stairway and the deposit. ahe denouncing the miitary profession, two men immediately entered and

Miss Margaret Kwok. of Bute Street, Mongkok, daughter of Mr. and saying it was wrong to use made short work in binding and

Kwok Fung-ting. force in any cause.

gagging the complainant. One of the men, complainant recognised as the man (first accused) who had previously interviewed her on three

in

one for

I do say the continued) that we are entit ed to know where the Church of England stands on this subject

I have been expecting foccasions. and am awaiting some leadership The woman in the meantime left) from those who do lead and who the flat, which do control

was thoroughly the Church and I ransacked. $500 in cash was taken think the time has now come from an envelope kept within a when those who are spreading wooden box near the veranda. these doctrines should have those The robbers who had threatened heresy I believe them to be, and doctrines denounced as heresy, for the inmates (there were com - that those who preach these doc trines should be denounced and that the leaders of the Church of England should say boldly that it

plainant and her niece in the flat at the time) with a screw driver, also made away with a compass. two gold rings, a pair of earrings. and a fountain pen.

arrested on April 16.

is the duty of a man to defend Police enquires were at once in- which he has been brought up and his country and the great ideals instigated, and the accused were in which he belleves, and that in- the whole history of Christianity there are no finer Christian heroes than soldiers.

and liberties of our own fellow subjects. When we take a pars in any international duty, as we have done in that between Italy and Abyssinia. it is we, Great Britain. who receive all the blame, because, as being so far the most powerful member of the League of Nations, Our part in any interference must be larger and our responsibilties greater than that of any other nation Our share of the blame must be the largest, and the dan- gers which.we incur for ourselves and our Empire must be commen- surable with our greatness. have got to realize that, if we are We to carry out the policy of support ing the League of Nations to "which all parties in the State are committed who are likely ever to have to assume office, and if we are to carry out that policy we have go to have Our forces unless we were strong. sufficiently strong to do it. The Government realized this before the last General Election, and they went to the country saking for a mandate to carry out with

e free hand the policy of rearma- ment: I can assure you that that policy is being carried out with a solemn assumption by the Govern-

In conclusion, Mr.. Duff Cooper also appealed to the League of Nations Union, of which he is him- self a member, to support by every means in s power the movement designed to equip the League of Nations with the force to uphold ita avowed principles. The world. he said, 'was looking to this coun- try for leadership in the cause of world peace, and we could not lead

Following evidence the case was adjourned as stated above..

Its task will be heavy, for every right to appear, no matter how well again before the Court. established, must be established

Where there is more than, one daimant to a hereditary privilege counsel will be briefed to argue the validity of the claims.

lice.

A DISCARDED ARTICLE Charged with stealing a

He

piece

of iron piping belonging to the Public Works Department. Wong Lin, 28, was bound over in $50 by Mr. B. F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy yesterday." It stated that the piping was scrap and was probably a discarded piece from one of the filter beas.

SUITCASE THEFT

was

inside from the sa. Kwong Sai at Charged with the larceny of one suitcase with 17 pieces of clothing

34, was sentenced to six weeks' the Yuen On Wharf, Leung Fan,

hard labour by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Court yesterday.

'DANGER OF BLACK CONSCRIPT HORDES

Britain Is Warned By Sir Abe Bailey

KEEP EYE ON JAPAN

London, Apr. 23. tiles raising huge armies of black The danger of European cout:-

by Sir Ale Balley in an interview One of the conscripts in Africa was

With Renter in Cape Town yester- day.

most picturesque of these disputa tions was the rivalry between the Duke of Newcastle and the Earl of Shrewsbury to provide the glove for King Edward VII.'s right hand and to support his right arm.

stressed

Sir Abe Bailey, who is sailing for Britain.shortly, said "The or-

DOMINIONS & THE Court of Claims found for the Sanisation of the Negro races by

CORONATION

cou-

Duke, as Lord of the Manor of script armies will in the end prove

the Powers of Europe Into Worksop...

more disastrous to Africa and Lu the world at large, than itself, and it may prove even more slavery

ment of its obligation. They will Agreement On Mosted since the Coronation of King difficult to stop once it has begun,

apare no time and no money in re-equipping this country as swift- ly as possible for any emergency that may arise. (Cheers.)

Mr. Duff Cooper added that the Government"could not do every- thing in this matter. It was the men and women of the country

Suitable Date

MAY 13 PROBABLE

London, April 23. who had got to help. It was no The Dominions have come to an good piling up guns and arma- agreement about the most suitable ments unless there were the men date, from their point of view, for behind. The meeting had been the Coronation. called, particularly to deal with the question of man power, and

An increasing volume of opinion favours a day in the first fortnight

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THE KING'S CHAMPION The only claims invariably allow

Charles II. are those of the Bishops of Durham and of Bath and Wells to support the Sovereign during the ceremony.

"The conscription of black peo ples by white Governments is 4. revival of slavery in its most dan gerous and subtle form," The Dean and Chapter of West-

Discussing the Italo-Abyssiniai minster claim not only the right crisis, Bir Abe said that in his to instruct the King in the rites opinion the chief danger was that, and ceremonies, but also fees, it was leaving a first-class naval which include six yards of "sar and military distatorship, free l canet" for the Dean's robes, all the work is will in the Eastern be- oblations and offerings, the King's misphere. Upper vestments when he enters the Abbey, the Throne, Royal sexts,

"Eternal Vigilance", :. "Unless Europe and America pay

that was a question which affect of May next year, most probably cushions, carpet, and other orna- serious attention to what is going ed the War Office more than the 13th, the Thursday before Whitments, and, "an hundred man-on, in China," be declared, "tht either of the other fighting De-Sunday. partments of the State, After A Thursday has been the choice alluding to the reductions in the for the last five Caronations. This establishment of both the Regular decision, moreover, would avoid a and the Territorial Armies and the clash with the Whitam Holiday deficiency (12,000 in the case of traffic, the Regulars, 40,000 in the case When the ocial announcement of the Territorials) below estab Ushment figures, Mr. Duff Cooper

said the existence and efficiency

of the Territorial Army was the condition upon which we could continue the defence of this County upan a voluntary basis Upon it reated the defence of our cousts and of our cities against at; tacke from the air. That was a

"

chets, the third part of a tun of most terrible results will suzels wine, and ash according to the follow, and it may be the doom af bounty of the King for the Dean Western civilisation, and Chapter's repast. A manchet "Britain ty particular should pus is a small loaf of the finest wheather defences in order, for unless en bread. ::

she can defend herself she will The hereditary King's Champion, not be able to hold the British Is made the Dominions and Coto- Mr. F. S. Dymoke, the 73-year-old Commonwealth together. nial representation at Westminster Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, Abbey will be fixed. No intimation Lines, will claim bis right to aptatorships if we remember and act "We can and will beat the e- has yet been made about the num-pear, Until the reign of George by the saying, Eternal vigilance is bars to be invited: Competition for IV. his ancestors used to appear the price of liberty,

a place will be extremely keen. -

on horse-back, armour-clad, at the "A strong British Common-

The Court of Claims will meet Coronation Banquet in Westmins wealth based upon free co-opera- soon after the Proclamation to ter Hall, and challenge to mortal tion is the best guarantee of decide who shall have places and combat any other claimant to the peace, and can be made the most functions at the Abbey ceremonies, Throne,

effective Instrument for defence.

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